Species Kogia breviceps (Blainville, 1838)

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Species Kogia breviceps (Blainville, 1838)

Pygmy Sperm Whale

Physeter breviceps Blainville, H.M.D. de 1838. Sur les Cachalots. Annales Françaises et Étrangères d'Anatomie et de Physiologie. Paris 2: 335-337 [337].
Type data:
Holotype MNHP skull, Cape of Good Hope, South Africa.
Secondary source:
Hershkovitz, P. 1966. Catalog of living whales. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 246: viii 1-259.
Euphysetes grayii Wall, W.B. 1851. History and description of the skeleton of a new sperm whale, lately set up in the Australian Museum ... together with some account of a new genus of sperm whales called Euphysetes. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 1: i-ii 1-66 [37].
Type data:
Holotype AM P368 skeleton, Maroubra Beach, NSW.
Secondary source:
Hershkovitz, P. 1966. Catalog of living whales. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 246: viii 1-259.
Euphysetes macleayii Krefft, G. 1866. Notice of a new species of sperm-whale belonging to the genus Euphysetes of Macleay. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1865: 708-713 [24 Apr. 1866] [708].
Type data:
Holotype AM P365,366,367 & 369 skeleton, Manly Beach, NSW.
Secondary source:
Hershkovitz, P. 1966. Catalog of living whales. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 246: viii 1-259.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

Hershkovitz, P. 1966. Catalog of living whales. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 246: viii 1-259 [113] (see also for synonyms based on non-Australian material)

Generic Combinations

Kogia breviceps (Blainville, 1838).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Mainly outside continental shelf.

IBRA and IMCRA regions (map not available)

IMCRA

Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)